EP0978200A2 - Procede et dispositif de codage d'une sequence d'images - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif de codage d'une sequence d'images

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EP0978200A2
EP0978200A2 EP99902731A EP99902731A EP0978200A2 EP 0978200 A2 EP0978200 A2 EP 0978200A2 EP 99902731 A EP99902731 A EP 99902731A EP 99902731 A EP99902731 A EP 99902731A EP 0978200 A2 EP0978200 A2 EP 0978200A2
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Laurence Andry
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  • the present invention relates to a method of coding a sequence of pictures comprising at least the steps of :
  • This invention may be used particularly for the implementation of MPEG-2 encoders.
  • the main principle of image compression techniques is to remove spatial and temporal data redundancy.
  • the MPEG standard for instance, is based on the two following techniques : discrete cosine transform (DCT) and motion compensation (as described for example in the following document "MPEG video coding : a basic tutorial introduction", S.R. Ely, BBC Report RD 1996/3).
  • DCT discrete cosine transform
  • motion compensation as described for example in the following document "MPEG video coding : a basic tutorial introduction", S.R. Ely, BBC Report RD 1996/3).
  • a conventional MPEG-2 encoder mainly comprises, as indicated in Fig.l, a formatting circuit 11, receiving each digitized picture of the concerned video sequence and intended to subdivide a picture signal -composed of a bidimensional array of picture elements, or pixels- into disjoint sub-pictures or blocks of smaller size (8 x 8 or 16 x 16 pixels), a DCT circuit 12, intended to apply to each block of pixels a bidimensional discrete cosine transform (the transform coefficients thus obtained being generally normalized to a predetermined range), a quantization circuit 13 intended to compress by thresholding and quantization (with a variable quantizer scale) the bidimensional array of the transform coefficients thus obtained for each block of pixels, a variable length encoding circuit 14, and a motion-compensated prediction circuit 15.
  • a formatting circuit 11 receiving each digitized picture of the concerned video sequence and intended to subdivide a picture signal -composed of a bidimensional array of picture elements, or pixels- into disjoint sub-pictures or blocks of smaller size (8 x 8 or
  • Said prediction circuit finds for each block a motion vector matching this block to another one in the previous picture of the sequence, displaces said previous block, according to the motion vector, and subtracts (the subtracter is here assumed to be included into the prediction circuit 15) the predicted picture thus obtained from the current one for delivering the difference picture that will be transformed, quantized and coded.
  • a picture type defines which prediction mode, I, P, or B, will be used to code each macroblock : I type corresponds to I-pictures coded without reference to other pictures, P type to P-pictures coded using motion-compensated prediction from a past I- or P-picture, and B type to B- pictures using both past and future I- or P-pictures for motion compensation.
  • a buffer 16 allows to store the output coded signals and to smooth out the variations in the output bit rate, and a rate control and quantizer scale variation circuit 17, provided between said buffer and the quantization circuit 13, allows to adjust the variable quantizer scale.
  • HVS human visual system
  • L is the luminance difference to the background and LB is the background luminance.
  • another contrast definition may be given : it is then defined as the ratio of a band- limited version of the picture - which is decomposed by the HVS into a set of sub-pictures expressed in several frequency bands and various orientations - over the mean luminance contained in the lower remaining frequency bands (when such a multi- resolution HVS model is thus considered, the contrast assessment requires two steps, a first one for decomposing the picture into a set of sub-pictures at various scales and orientations, with a pyramidal decomposition such as the Simoncelli pyramid, and a second one for computing the contrast for each scale and each orientation).
  • the masking effect is then taken into account through a masking function which is applied to the obtained contrast information; this effect corresponds to the variation of a stimulus visibility threshold as a function of the luminance present in the neighbourhood of this stimulus.
  • a signal the stimulus
  • this effect corresponds to the variation of a stimulus visibility threshold as a function of the luminance present in the neighbourhood of this stimulus.
  • Computations based on these two concepts (contrast, masking) finally allow to obtain perceptual measures for each pyramid band. Assuming that the relation between the DCT domain and the pyramidal frequency domain is linear, perceptual weighting factors (PWF) for each DCT basis function of each block are derived (by computation) from the perceptual measures obtained for each frequency and orientation band.
  • PWF perceptual weighting factors
  • a quantization control circuit generates for each block a quantization control signal that detects a degree of influence on visual sensation for each block and then allows to specify an appropriate quantization step size received by a quantization circuit.
  • the object of the invention is to improve the visual quality obtained by means of such an adaptive quantization.
  • the invention relates to a coding method such as defined in the preamble of the description, said method being further characterized in that it also comprises, before said quantizing step, the additional sub-steps of :
  • the invention also relates, for carrying out said method, to a device for coding a sequence of pictures comprising at least formatting means for subdividing each input picture into sub-pictures, quantization means, provided for compressing by thresholding and quantization a digital bitstream corresponding to said pictures, encoding means, provided for coding the output signals of said quantizing means, and rate control and quantizer scale variation means, provided for ensuring a constant bit rate at the output of said coding device, characterized in that said device also comprises, in series between its input and said quantizing means, bit reallocation control means including :
  • W(i) (l+a/2) - (a.F(S(i))) where a is a constant provided for controlling the modulation amplitude.
  • Fig.l depicts the main circuits of a conventional MPEG-2 encoder
  • Fig.2 illustrates an encoder according to the present invention
  • Fig.3 shows in greater detail an essential circuit of the encoder of Fig.2.
  • bit allocation is mainly dependent on the quantizer scale (one per macroblock), determined to ensure a constant bit rate at the output of the encoder : a lower (resp. higher) quantizer scale results in a better (resp.worse) image quality and a higher (resp. lower) number of coding bits.
  • a lower (resp. higher) quantizer scale results in a better (resp.worse) image quality and a higher (resp. lower) number of coding bits.
  • the amount of bits that can be allocated for the current macroblock to be encoded is first determined (rate controlling step). This target bit number then allows to set a reference value of the quantizer scale Q(i) for said macroblock.
  • An adaptive quantization is finally carried out by means of a modulation of this reference value of the quantizer scale according to the spatial activity of the macroblock.
  • the invention noticeably increases said quality by replacing the prior art structure by the structure of the encoder shown in Fig.2.
  • the formatting circuit, the DCT circuit, the quantization circuit, the encoding circuit, the prediction circuit, the output buffer and the rate control and quantizer scale variation circuit are now designated by the references 21 to 27 respectively.
  • Said rate control and quantizer scale variation circuit 27 is provided as previously between the buffer 25 and the quantization circuit 23.
  • a bit reallocation control circuit 30, detailed in Fig.3, is provided for carrying out the principle of the present invention.
  • the circuit 30 comprises an HVS modeling circuit 31 that receives each input picture and processes it in order to decompose it into a set of pictures and to compute the contrast and the masking for each of them, which allows to generate perceptual weighting factors.
  • a visual sensitivity value S(i) per macroblock i in the DCT domain is then computed according to the relation (2) :
  • W(i) (l + a/2) - (a.F(S(i))) (5)
  • F(S(i)) is the cumulative distribution function of the sensitivity and a is a constant allowing to control the modulation amplitude.
  • the perceptual modulation coefficients W(i) are greater than 1 for half of the macrob locks and lower than 1 for the other half.
  • the modulation amplitude is dependent both on the eye sensitivity and on the occurrence frequency of this sensitivity.
  • bits are reallocated preferably to sensitive areas, while ensuring that the rate control performance is not modified.

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur l'utilisation d'un système visuel humain dans un codeur vidéo, ainsi que sur un procédé et un dispositif de codage dans lequel l'affectation de bits est modifiée efficacement sur chaque image courante selon la sensibilité de l'oeil à chaque zone d'image. En vue d'une réaffectation, on effectue un calcul spécifique de ce qu'on appelle les coefficients perpétuels, ce calcul entraînant une meilleure qualité visuelle tout en assurant qu'il n'y a pas modification de la performance globale de la régulation de vitesse du codeur. Cette invention peut être appliquée sur des codeurs MPEG-2.
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